"What kind of stuff do you write? ''one student asked on my first day at the University of Massachusetts. After a decade away from the classroom, I was back to _______.
"I write creative nonfiction," I said, “as you'll be doing.”
It was a _______. I couldn't remember when I'd last written a _______ essay. But it must have been before my mother fell ill, leaving me feeling my family story wouldn't end _______. It seemed that nothing I wrote could change that. _______ I couldn't write my own stories, I could _______ my students to tell theirs. "You're going to keep a _______ in this class, and I want you to tell your stories like they _______ ."
“Why do they matter? ” a boy named Michael asked. Looking out at the roomful of students, I _______. No one said a word. Many of them, I learned, worked while in school. Most didn't know their stories did matter. They didn't even realize their stories were as __________ as their own lives.
Finally, I looked at Michael. “They matter because they' re what you have. Stories allow us to make meaning of what we've __________ I said. Michael didn't look __________, but he didn't challenge me, either.
In his first essay, Michael wrote about how his high school English teacher seeing his __________and helped him fill out a college __________. I had Michael read his essay out loud. After he finished, the class went so __________ that we could hear the sound of each other's ____________. I looked at him and saw a small __________ in his dark eyes. Then, I said, "That's why you tell your stories."
I went home that night and __________ my journal from where it lay, dusty and __________. For the first time in months, I had to __________ .
1.A.studying B.teaching C.traveling D.operating
2.A.lie B.joke C.game D.trick
3.A.moving B.creative C.useful D.fascinating
4.A.safely B.proudly C.happily D.perfectly
5.A.Once B.Unless C.Because D.Although
6.A.warn B.order C.permit D.encourage
7.A.book B.letter C.journal D.fiction
8.A.exist B.matter C.happen D.remember
9.A.nodded B.laughed C.hesitated D.responded
10.A.meaningful B.frustrating C.ridiculous D.satisfying
11.A.taken over B.turned over C.gone through D.broken through
12.A.worried B.frightened C.impressive D.convinced
13.A.weakness B.potential C.amusement D.difficulty
14.A.invitation B.suggestion C.application D.composition
15.A.still B.loud C.free D.alive
16.A.breath B.debate C.thought D.remark
17.A.flying B.doubting C.praising D.softening
18.A.got at B.picked up C.looked at D.kept up
19.A.amazed B.shocked C.disabled D.untouched
20.A.write B.sleep C.rest D.stop
Since the age of three, Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. However, her _______ nearly ended one night in 2010. A car accident put the 17-year-old high school senior in the hospital for 51 days and left her paralyzed (瘫痪) from the _______ down.
For most people, that would have _______ any hope of a dancing career. For Hill, it was the beginning. Far from being a _______, her wheelchair brought out her bravery. She wanted to prove she was still “normal” by dancing. _______ Hill did it, rolling her wheelchair right alongside her nondisabled high school dance team. “It feels as if half of my body was _______ from me, and I have to move it with my hands,” Hill said. “It definitely took a lot of _______ and patience.”
After graduation, Hill wanted to _______ her dance network to include women like her. She began to meet people online who had suffered similar injuries but _______ her determination. Then in 2014, Hill moved to Los Angeles and formed a team of dancers with disabilities she calls the Rollettes. “I want to __________ the stereotype (刻板形象) of wheelchair users and show dance is dance, whether you’re walking or you’re __________.”
Dancing on wheels can be just as fast-paced, artful, and __________ as the foot-based variety. In disabled dance competitions around the country, her team danced to the popular tunes, __________ their upper bodies, shaking their heads to the special __________, striking poses, and __________ their wheelchairs in well-timed, dynamic, highly designed routines. They’re having fun, and as the audiences’ exuberant (热情洋溢的) reactions indicate, the fun is __________.
Hill has attained what many of us never will: her childhood __________. She’s a dancer. But the Rollettes have helped her find something else just as __________. Every year she holds a dance camp for other wheelchair users with an eye to helping them find their inner __________. In 2019, 173 participants from ten countries attended. For many, it was the first time they’d felt they __________.
1.A.effect B.reputation C.ambition D.performance
2.A.waist B.neck C.joint D.lap
3.A.aroused B.exposed C.destroyed D.seized
4.A.stage B.clue C.path D.barrier
5.A.Similarly B.Actually C.Necessarily D.Previously
6.A.torn down B.taken away C.picked up D.cut down
7.A.wisdom B.praying C.intelligence D.learning
8.A.dismiss B.expand C.narrow D.simplify
9.A.shared B.opposed C.shook D.ensured
10.A.call off B.bring in C.break down D.carry on
11.A.rolling B.driving C.lying D.playing
12.A.conventional B.artificial C.profitable D.fruitful
13.A.bearing B.freezing C.rocking D.fueling
14.A.voices B.notes C.lines D.beats
15.A.lifting B.operating C.stretching D.guiding
16.A.vain B.plain C.temporary D.infectious
17.A.career B.dream C.memory D.education
18.A.demanding B.tough C.meaningful D.flexible
19.A.strength B.beast C.label D.weakness
20.A.adventured B.suffered C.belonged D.volunteered
Bridging the gap
How does a principal investigator make communication among deaf and hearing colleagues easier? Moreover, how are the large number of field-specific technical terms _______— and communicated in sign language? These _______ differences are not remarkably challenging to work around.
Blumberg taught himself American Sign Language and has interpreters _______ in the lab during the day. For lab meetings, journal clubs and research seminars, he has two interpreters present t0 tag-team signing. Costs for the interpreters are _______ by the NIH's Office of Research Services. The only learning curve that he experienced, Blumberg says, was realizing he needed _______ interpreters, Before, when he had one deaf student, he could _______ the interpreting. As more deaf fellows joined, Blumberg _______ full-time interpreters for help.
Having interpreters around all day is not necessary though. " _______ . interpreters are only needed during the day if we're having lab meeting, classes, important functions or events, or _______ -poster presentations, student presentations, guest presentations from ________________ scientists, Lundberg says. "The rest of the day, I do not need an interpreter, ________________ I'm in lab and it's independent work.”
During his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, Lundberg used online chat platforms to ________________ with his adviser and colleagues. Or he wrote ________________ a whiteboard, scratch paper, or paper towels. His adviser later ________________ that he keep the scraps of paper, which “was really good advice," Lundberg says, "because they were really good notes."
The best way to arrange the most suitable accommodations for deaf individuals is to ask them ________________ they need, says Derek Braun, a former postdoctoral fellow with Blumberg and currently a professor of biology at Gallaudet University. One of his ongoing projects is a collaboration with Blumberg and Lundberg to investigate the role of Ras guanyl nucleotide (鸟苷核苷酸) — releasing proteins in cancer. ________________ deaf people sign, Braun says. "Some are oral. Really, we come in every flavor imaginable. The best judge of what that person needs is usually the person?
Signing scientific terms is not unusually challenging either. While no standardized set of signs for technical words exists, colleagues working in the same lab develop their own signs for the terms they frequently use. If each lab develops signs ________________, what happens when members of different labs meet?
Larry Pearce, a technician in Blumberg’s lab ________________ is deaf, explains to me, “ It's really not that difficult, because when an individual does not understand a sign we use, they'll ask for clarifications (说明) and I'll finger-spell. I’ll spell ________________ out. They will tell me what their sign is, and I'll tell them what our sign is. If I like their sign better, I might adopt it and use it every day, or vice-versa (反之亦然), and eventually it becomes more ________________
1.A.adapted B.adopted C.adjusted D.announced
2.A.culture B.pronunciation C.communication D.habit
3.A.stationed B.canned C.cupped D.capped
4.A.counted B.contained C.included D.covered
5.A.better B.fewer C.more D.less
6.A.carry out B.carry on C.make out D.make up
7.A.turned B.sought C.referred D.led
8.A.In particular B.In general C.In conclusion D.In word
9.A.colleagues B.interpreters C.presentations D.accommodations
10.A.another B.any C.others D.other
11.A.because B.though C.whether D.unless
12.A.write B.read C.listen D.speak
13.A.below B.on C.in D.beyond
14.A.knew B.suggested C.discovered D.noticed
15.A.which B.that C.what D.if
16.A.Not all B.All C.Few D.Not enough
17.A.independently B.dependently C.secretly D.occasionally
18.A.where B.which C.who D.when
19.A.them B.me C.myself D.it
20.A.essential B.particular C.related D.universal
I reach Lhakpa Sherpa's apartment at noon on a Sunday. She runs out of the front door, hugs me, and _______ me inside. The _______ apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ gymnastic _______.
Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to climb up Everest(珠穆朗玛峰)and back _______, which she _______ in the spring of 2000. With nine summits(登顶),she holds the world record for _______.
During the interview, I'm _______ by her achievements - but also her _______ of resources. How is it that a woman with such _______ achievement and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk ________ to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?
She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, ________ minimum wage. Unable to ________ or drive a car, she walks to work and ________ takes an Uber to training destinations. "Climbing is my ________ out of washing dishes," Lhakpa tells me. "It is also the way to make a better life for the ________. Besides washing dishes, she is often ________ to inspire others, particularly women and single parents.
Her ________ is to climb Everest again in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit she once tried to reach but ________ because of bad weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, ________ not crazy.
"Actually, all extreme ________ are crazy" she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too."
1.A.locks B.allows C.follows D.welcomes
2.A.small B.big C.comfortable D.messy
3.A.classes B.skills C.rules D.meets
4.A.alone B.alive C.stressed out D.tired out
5.A.challenged B.attempted C.accomplished D.explored
6.A.journalists B.workers C.men D.women
7.A.struck B.frightened C.excited D.surrounded
8.A.lack B.demand C.management D.waste
9.A.tiny B.great C.extra D.personal
10.A.nothing B.everything C.miles D.years
11.A.paying B.raising C.making D.spending
12.A.control B.start C.afford D.sell
13.A.occasionally B.immediately C.practically D.urgently
14.A.reason B.service C.confidence D.way
15.A.boys B.girls C.students D.viewers
16.A.expected B.informed C.driven D.forced
17.A.advice B.belief C.dream D.promise
18.A.fled B.feared C.fell D.failed
19.A.if B.when C.though D.since
20.A.women B.athletes C.things D.circumstances
In our daily life, if you feel sick or uncomfortable, you might _________ a doctor But what to do if you don't quite know _________ you fit into this world and you're tired of carrying that _______ alone?
I answered _______ questions on life puzzles at the entrance to the Boston City subway at 55 th and 9th. A group of strangers had _______ because they were carrying around some _______, meaningful questions that had _______ gone unanswered, like why can't I be happier in my life?"
And then I _______ him, a little boy, who would be my_________ questioner of the day. He was about 6 years old and held his mother's hand ____________ he craned （伸长脖子）his neck to stare at us. His mother stopped, but the boy ____________. "It's OK," I offered. Do you have a question?" The boy smiled at his mother, then ____________ her hand to walk over towards us. He looked me ____________ in the eye and said: "How do I know I'm real?"
____________ I was back in graduate school. Should I talk about the French philosopher Rene Descartes to prove our ____________with the phrase "I think, therefore I am"? Or, ____________ English philosopher G. E. Moore and his famous "here is one hand, here is the other," to ____________ that the outside world really exists? But then the answer came to me. I remembered that the most important part of ____________ was feeding our sense of wonder. "Close your eyes," I said. He did. "Well, did you ____________?" He smiled and shook his head, then opened his eyes. "Congratulations, you're real.
He smiled ____________ and walked over to his mother, who looked back at us and also smiled.
1.A.seek out B.go out C.turn out D.make out
2.A.what B.where C.why D.when
3.A.experience B.message C.information D.burden
4.A.students’ B.passengers’ C.friends’ D.strangers’
5.A.gone by B.pulled over C.stopped by D.dropped off
6.A.innocent B.interesting C.deep D.absurd
7.A.never B.long C.seldom D.little
8.A.recognized B.knew C.spotted D.witnessed
9.A.loveliest B.friendliest C.toughest D.smartest
10.A.as B.before C.until D.since
11.A.hated B.cried C.delighted D.hesitated
12.A.let go of B.caught hold of C.got rid of D.got away from
13.A.dead B.likely C.wide D.honestly
14.A.Gradually B.Suddenly C.Shortly D.Previously
15.A.criterion B.distinction C.existence D.appearance
16.A.talk B.refer C.consult D.mention
17.A.condemn B.confirm C.command D.consume
18.A.philosophy B.life C.work D.research
19.A.exist B.escape C.fly D.disappear
20.A.strangely B.broadly C.bitterly D.confusedly
Linda worked as a waitress at the Route 130 diner in Dover, New Hampshire. One Thursday morning around 5:30 am, she was _______ two firefighters, Young and Hulling. Quite _______, she heard that they had been up all _______ putting out a fierce warehouse fire, which took twelve hours to get under control.
_______, Linda decided to honor these two heroes by picking up their _______ and writing them a heartfelt message of gratitude. It _______, “Your breakfast is on me today. Thank you for all that you do... Fueled by fire and driven by _______, what an example you are! Get some rest.”
This simple act of kindness meant so much to the _______ firefighters. The firefighters _______ and thanked her before leaving the __________
To return the young lady’s kindness, upon his arrival home, Hulling posted a Facebook update __________ his friends to go eat at the diner, which was quickly __________ over 3,000 times.
However, it was not until afterwards that they realized Linda was __________ the one that could use the __________. When they found out that Linda was trying to __________ money for her paralyzed father to get a wheelchair-accessible van, Young posted with a __________ to a GoFundMe page for Linda’s dad, and the support __________.
The total donations reached $60,000 and went beyond Linda’s wildest dreams. She had never __________ that her small gesture would be paid in such a __________ way. “I’m truly blessed that those two walked through the doors today and __________ for the opportunity to be a part of something so positive and uplifting.’’ Linda said on Facebook.
1.A.calling B.praising C.serving D.anticipating
2.A.in private B.in public C.by design D.by coincidence
3.A.day B.night C.morning D.afternoon
4.A.Touched B.Shocked C.Excited D.Embarrassed
5.A.uniform B.money C.check D.breakfast
6.A.replied B.wrote C.indicated D.read
7.A.concern B.courage C.confidence D.curiosity
8.A.worried B.ambitious C.modest D.exhausted
9.A.showed up B.sat up C.teared up D.stayed up
10.A.apartment B.station C.restaurant D.warehouse
11.A.urging B.forcing C.helping D.reminding
12.A.collected B.examined C.removed D.shared
13.A.really B.normally C.suddenly D.hardly
14.A.fire B.help C.diner D.message
15.A.count B.donate C.change D.raise
16.A.note B.picture C.link D.click
17.A.poured in B.spread out C.declined D.doubled
18.A.promised B.expected C.doubted D.accepted
19.A.rapid B.generous C.proper D.conventional
20.A.grateful B.eager C.ready D.greedy
